I am impatient at waiting for the next one to release, so I figured I'd go back to the two I missed.

In his most thrilling novel to date, bestselling author Dan Brown transports readers from the ultra-secret National Reconnaissance Office to the towering ice shelves of the Arctic Circle, and back again to the hallways of power inside the West Wing. Clearly the senator's classic good looks had not skipped generations, although Rachel Sexton seemed to carry her blessings with a grace and humility her father could learn from. This book is written in way that if you are fan of Michael Crichton books, you will like this one too. Gabrielle later threatens to expose her one-time illegitimate affair to dissuade Sexton from sacrificing her daughter for his political ambitions. This time though, we are not dealing with religious sects but with the NASA, the CIA and the government.The Delta Force soldiers kill Ming and Mangor while leaving Rachel, Tolland and Marlinson to perish on an ice floe, but they're rescued by the Navy submarine USS Charlotte.

The book is readable and lacks the self-indulgence seen with so many other authors and so many other Dan Brown books! Wailee Ming: A paleontologist with an impeccable dress habit; he is drowned early in the book by Pickering's death squad when he attempted to investigate an irregularity in the extraction hole.To put it in a nutshell I wasn't really impressed by the storyline but like I said Dan Brown is an expert at what he does.